[Famaldehide Face]

How long have these things been out?, I have never seen these used before.

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/3686/1000616jy7.jpg

[Jim K]

At first, I thought that was a regular ammo can in some kind of back harness, but it looks a lot bigger. I wonder how fast a real soldier could run with that on.

The general idea of a back pack ammo carrier has been around for at least 50 years. The first one I saw was for a belt-fed AR-10. It was aluminum, doughnut-shaped, and held 500 rounds.

I never fired the gun with it, but I tried a loaded one on and can only say that I didn't think I wanted to carry one very far.

Jim

[tntwatt]

good god can you imagine how heavy that thing is?

[rcmodel]

My god that picture is BIG!

As for heavy?
Machine gunners don't know the meaning of the word anymore!

What if you had to hump a Browning .30 light machine gun?
31 pounds.

Or the tripod?
14 pounds.

Or both at the same time?
45 pounds.

Or 200 round ammo boxes?
19 pounds each.

rcmodel

[Sunray]

Please reduce the size of your pictures. A dial up user will be loading this page until next Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday.
The back pack looks like just that. A pack with an ammo can in it. Like these.
http://www.skdtac.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=593

[Ron James]

rcmodel, isn't it the truth, at one time in one of my past lifes the powers to be decided that I would make a ideal 50 cal Browning machine gunner At 5'8" and 140 pounds , well needless to say the damn tripod seemed to weight more than I did:)

[icebones]

where did you take this picture? at a dispaly?
to me it dosent look like a real human holding that weapon.

this setup seems like a bad idea, because there is nothing to protect the ammo belt, it seems safer to add in a feeding tube of some sort to protect the ammo belt from kinking,

although this backpack was used with naked ammo just for dramatic pourposes.

[Jim K]

Yes, emmagees tend to be weighty. I once had to carry a .50 HB M2 a mile or so, gun on one shoulder, barrel on the other.

Jim

[4thPointOfContact]

Are you Sure it Is out? That looks an awful lot like a mannequin in the picture. It could easily be somebody's idea of what 'should be' instead of what is.

As icebones said...that's a Lot of ammo being free-aired, just waiting to be snagged on anything and everything.

[rcmodel]

somebody's idea of what 'should be' instead of what is.+1

I think that's why he has his goggles under his chin.

To keep the SAW belt from sawing his neck-bone off! :D

Ron James said:
, well needless to say the damn tripod seemed to weight more than I didI just thought that is the way the Army did things.

It always appeared to me they assigned the heaviest weapons to the littlest guys every time. I'd be humping an M-60, or 81mm morter tube, and the 275 pound weight-lifter guy had an M-79 in one hand, and nothing in the other!

rcmodel

[jrfoxx]

I beleive this setup was mentioned in guns and ammo in this months, or maybe last months issue in an article about the FN MG we are using now (240B? I want to say).I got the inpression its an actual, "out" item. They mention it along with several other methods of ammo carry for the gun. Not much detail, only mentioned in a couple pics, mainly as a side note.